City schools to discuss Randolph School move

1:10 PM,
Jul. 17, 2013

Asheville City Schools spokesman Charlie Glazener and CFO Donna Watson examine trailers that will be used to house the Randoph Learning Center on property at the Wesley Grant Center. (John Fletcher 7-15-13)

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When life gave Dewayne Tillman modular units, he made a vision for an even better William Randolph School.

That vision is slowly coming to fruition this week as the last of 12 modulars are delivered to the Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center, which will house the students of William Randolph displaced in a move to build a new Isaac Dickson Elementary this fall.

"From the moment we learned we'd be losing our building, we knew we needed to make it a deal that would leave our kids with something better than they had before," said Tillman, the new principal of the William Randolph program. "The kids ...